I'm so grateful for my time at OpenAI, where I led alignment safety for the official ChatGPT basketball . I gained so much valuable experience building Altman's armageddon engines, and I'm taking it to the next level with my new startup: Jurassic Park. At Jurassic Park, we're resurrecting the ultimate apex predators to defend humanity against misaligned AI. Cyberdefense Capabilities Further reading: OpenAI incident report , Anthropic incident report . According to the fossil...

Follow up from this post - I just signed into my Vinted account (to delete it) and it didn't send me an MFA SMS so how the fuck is me giving them my number securing my account in any way? The internet is fucked. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email , or leave a comment . Follow up from this post -...

Hello, We have another dose of human generated facts for you. I was planning to write about these biter and enemy behavior changes before the 2.1 release, but an unfortunately timed neck injury led to it being postponed. The silver lining here is that now I can write about all the player reactions and funny bugs we've found along the way. We might be getting into controversial territory here, but I like the biters and I like fighting them. I like clearing nests when expa...

Every piece of disruptive technology in history has a life story. For X-BAT, that story begins nearly forty years before its conception with the development of a unique propulsion technology. AVEN ® , or the Axisymmetric Vectoring Exhaust Nozzle, is the thrust-vectoring engine nozzle that lets Shield AI’s X-BAT launch and land vertically without a runway. It wasn’t initially designed to enable the world’s first AI-piloted vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) strike fighter. It was create...

SigV4 looks simple: sign a request, check the signature. Then you implement canonicalization, clock skew, and a cache that isn't allowed to hold your key. Tigris is a drop-in replacement for AWS S3 (or GCS, anything S3API compatible). As such, we need to be fully compatible with both the mechanisms and semantics of S3 including the SigV4 authentication protocol . This is the lingua franca of authentication in the object storage landscape; ...

Zig’s Io.Threaded is Neat Aug 6, 2026 std.Io.Threaded is one of the implementations of Zig’s new Io interface that enables concurrency. This is a boring “just use threads” impl. I personally find it neat though — it does this weird thing that I wanted to do for ages , that to my knowledge no one else is doing properly, and implements it better than I thought to be possible. Io.Threaded uses blocking syscalls and fully supports cancelation. Concurrency vs Parallelism...

Who knows how reality will continue to develop? There’s no way to prepare. When you can’t be prepared, be prepared to find poetry in the chaos. Secret messages, serendipitous grace, lines of meaning in a whirlwind of uncertainty. “It's gonna change, baby doll It's gonna change, honey ball It's gonna change, sugar cane It's gonna change, sweetie legs.” —Yoko Ono This is a test but so is everything. Everyone is watching you and everyone will judge you and you have to make p...

I was at one of the local museums last weekend, because it was the last day of their exhibit on "clouds in art", that I'd been wanting to check out since March. At the museum, I took pictures using a kids camera that instantly prints on thermal paper. I got this because Max had one at IWC Nürnberg and I thought it was cool — he also has a cool post about a thermal printer camera project , you should check that out. It turned off before I got through the whole exhibit because it was ...

Shortly after Apple launched the budget MacBook Neo , Dell announced their response, a new low-end XPS 13 . Matching the Neo's current pricing, it starts at $699, or $599 with an educational discount. That discount is currently set to expire on November 2, and with the current component pricing insanity, I'd be surprised if we don't see a price increase on both laptops by next year. I ran the XPS 13 through my gauntlet of benchmarks , and published a review on my YouTube channel: ...

In past posts I’ve listed numbers that don’t have: Nine Seven Seven, again Eight Based on overwhelmingly positive feedback, today we’re looking at numbers that don’t have six. I provide this service free of charge. 6 Wait, damn it. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2026-08-07. In past posts I’ve listed numbers that don’t have: Nine Seven Seven, again Eight Based on overwhelmingly positive feedback, today we’re looking at numbers that don’t have s...

Imagine you’re the guest on some kind of frenetic, software-engineering-themed game show. The host is constantly flipping over new cards with questions that you have to answer as fast as possible: Is this adjustment to the database schema right? Do these bits of data look plausible? Do these five paragraphs of text describe an actual series of manual tests that took place? Does this suggested architecture pass the smell test? Is this implementation better than the current code? Or ...

Home under construction, via Wikipedia . A few weeks ago the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act became law . This is an enormous housing bill that’s been in the works for roughly a year — I first discussed it on Statecraft back in 2025 — and folks are optimistic that it will, per its description, “increase the supply of housing in America.” But actually understanding what, specifically, the law will do is tricky. Like many large pieces of legislation, this is an amalgamation of many ...

Back in 2022 I tweeted screenshots of a game concept generated by GPT-3 and some concept "art" created using DALL-E. Today, on the fourth anniversary of that tweet, I decided to see if Claude Fable 5 (running in Claude Code for web ) could build the entire game from the content of that tweet. It did a pretty good job of it! You can play the game here . Here's the GitHub repo , and a short video demo: Your browser does not support HTML5 video. How I built this This...

Accessing services via raw IP addresses isn’t that swell; I’m no Rain Man. It’s time to set up subdomains for my hietala.xyz domain for internal use. We’ll use the Gateway API to set up routes, cert-manager to give us https without self-signed browser warnings, and ExternalDNS to set up DNS overrides. HTTP routing I believe the flow of resolving http://argocd.hietala.xyz to a service looks something like this: digraph { rankdir = LR " Browser " -> " O...

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I wrote ryg_rans in 2014. I still regularly get questions and patch submissions from people who want to use it as a library. That is not what it’s for! ryg_rans is not a library, never was. It’s a toy implementation of an algorithm whose core fits in something like 20 lines of code. It’s the equivalent of the wooden board you sometimes see in hardware stores where they have 30 different types and sizes of fasteners screwed, bolted or nailed in. The idea is not that you should use th...

Spirit Airlines stopped flying overnight on May 2, and within days a TikTok clip turned into one of the biggest fan-driven money pushes of the year. The Let’s Buy Spirit campaign, started by creator Hunter Peterson, collected about $88 million in nonbinding pledges from tens of thousands of people who want a crowd-owned airline. Almost every analyst who has reviewed the plan says it cannot work. Here is why it took off anyway. What Is the Let’s Buy Spirit Campaign? Hunter Peterson, a Los...

There’s a game called Mass Effect , which I haven’t played, but I’m told in the game there’s this species of sentient robots, the Geth , whose creators try to exterminate them, and the trigger for this Butlerian jihad was a domestic servant Geth looking up at its owner and asking: “does this unit have a soul?”. And if you’re playing the game in 2007 you probably think: yeah, a machine asking this question is proof that it has personhood or sapience or sophonce , whatever you cal...

0.0 Context Setting Thursday, 6 August 2026 in Portland, Oregon. It’s been 2 days and 29 years since Skynet was turned on, and we only have about three weeks or so until it gains sentience and all goes kaplooey. 0.1 Events: How People Work, Live! I’m afraid I’ve had to postpone How People Work, Live! ... with Dylan Wilbanks this week. We’ll schedule it for another time. That means the next ones coming up are: 006 How People Work, Live! ... with weaver ( register here! ), on Frid...

Last year I spoke at MK Geek Night about my personal reflections on how, after years of chasing IndieWeb perfection, I just accepted my imperfect website. I finally sat down to transcribe it and post it here. The base of this post was a transcript of my presentation but some editing is now present for added clarity, blog context instead of presentation and correction of grammatical mistakes. This a ramble about what a safe personal online space focused on creativity, community, and self-ex...

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There’s been a fair bit of publicity of the Open AI “rogue agent” that hacked into Hugging Face . This prompted Anthropic to check what their models were up to and, to my complete lack of surprise, discovered three incidents where models had gained unauthorized access to data in other organizations. Simon Wilison concluded : It’s abundantly clear now that running evals of cyberattack potential in models is a spectacularly risky business. Every AI lab needs to pay attention to ...

Please help if you can: I am working with some students who are studying programmers’ beliefs about software engineering folklore. If you can spare a few minutes to answer the question in https://survey.bth.se/survey/2545 , we would be very grateful. We would also be grateful if you could circulate the survey link to colleagues and friends, since we would like to reach as diverse a demographic as possible. Thanks in advance. Please help if you can: I am working with some students who are stu...